CONYERS, Georgia (CNN) -- An estimated 100,000 pilgrims
crowded onto a Georgia farm Tuesday to hear what they
believed would be a final message from the Virgin Mary,
delivered by a woman who claims to have received hundreds of
such visions.

Nancy Fowler, 47, has attracted huge crowds since she said
the Virgin Mary told her to buy a farm in 1990 and pass on
her messages to the faithful.

Fowler emerged from her home Tuesday afternoon saying that
the Virgin Mary had given her a message to "the youth of the
world" who are "lacking in direction."

"I ask the youth of the world to choose a saint, and model
their life after the saint, and you will receive the
intercessory help of the saint," Fowler quoted the Virgin
Mary as saying.

Seemingly endless lines of cars snaked through the hilly
terrain as the pilgrims converged at the farm, located about
35 miles east of Atlanta.

Fowler said she had been told this would be the last year the Virgin Mary would deliver a message.

Believers, some of whom had waited for days, prayed on
rosaries as they waited for Fowler, a former nurse, to relay
the last of the messages.

Some came not only to hear the message, but also because of rumors of miracle cures at the farm.

"I'm hoping my daughter will get up and walk," said Theo Osuji, whose four-year-old daughter has cerebral palsy. Osuji immigrated to the United States from Nigeria.

Martha Gonzalez came with 1,500 other Catholic Church members from Monterrey, Mexico. She said she made the trip "just to be here around all the people who believe in the same thing -- that God is alive, calling us."

In 1993, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, Rockdale County authorities threatened to declare the large crowds at the farm a public nuisance, saying the influx of people were a concern in the largely rural county of 60,000.

The complaint failed to deter the public, however, and in November of that year 80,000 people showed up.

Fowler said that year her monthly messages would stop
and she would speak only once a year -- October 13, the
anniversary of a reported appearance by the Virgin Mary to
three children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Pope John Paul II has recognized the Fatima appearance as a factual event.

The Catholic Church, however, does not sanction the Conyers'
event, and local Catholic leaders have distanced themselves
from Fowler.

Even though the Virgin Mary is not expected to appear again before Fowler, the pilgrimages are likely to continue to the farm because Fowler plans to build a church on the site.

She said the final message from the Virgin Mary was too long
to deliver in full, so it will be posted on what many
consider to be a modern-day miracle -- the Internet.